Re: [seul-edu] Alternatives to NIS

[Dave Prentice <dprentice@uno.edu>]

David,

    I am really frustrated with this NIS stuff. The reason I thought you had to recompile the kernel is that the NIS HOWTO makes casual reference to it. However, it doesn't give details. There is a Makefile in /var/yp, but when I run make in that directory I get error messages that are a total mystery to me. I am totally in the dark about how to make this thing work. 

    All the expensive books I have bought deal very trivially with setting up an NIS server. Is there somewhere a HOWTO or other document that gives _detailed_ instructions on setting up the NIS server?  

Thanks,

Dave Prentice
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-----Original Message-----
From: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
To: seul-edu@seul.org <seul-edu@seul.org>
Date: Wednesday, October 25, 2000 3:25 AM
Subject: Re: [seul-edu] Alternatives to NIS

dprentice@uno.edu said:
>   This NIS stuff is frustrating. I am trying to figure out how to
> compile the kernel. When I go through all the make config stuff and
> get to the part where you actually compile, I then get a message that
> gcc is not found. Anybody know what rpm it's part of on the Redhat 6
> or 7 CD's?

You don't need to recompile your kernel. The kernel has absolutely nothing
to do with NIS.

In RH7, the RPM you require is kgcc-1.1.2-40.i386.rpm. Not sure about 6.2
any more - I think it's egcs-1.1.2-24.

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